Posted by Zenae Zukowski on May 15, 2023
Dark Fortress recently revealed their tour would be their last. The trek has now, sadly, come to a conclusion, and the group has called it quits after three decades. 2020’s Spectres From The Old World marks the group’s final record, which landed at #21 in Metal Insider’s top 50 albums of 2020 year-end list. […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 1, 2023
From Omnium Gatherum’s debut, Spirits and August Light, to the transcending record of Souvenirs from The Gathering, February 2003 was an alluring month for metal. We collected ten strong records that recently celebrated their twentieth-anniversary last month. 01) Cult of Luna, The Beyond The Beyond is the sophomore album by Swedish post-metal outfit […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on December 24, 2020
2020 kicked off with a bang. Beginning with another successful year at 70000tons of Metal to seeing Heilung, Vader, and Opeth live, what could go wrong? The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the music industry to the point that I don’t know where things will stand in a post-pandemic world. This year felt like […]
Posted by Jeff Podoshen on December 1, 2020
Well, thankfully 2020 is coming to a close. Good riddance. And while the year itself was awful, the music wasn’t. Lots of great records in 2020 and I listened to a lot of them while staring into the backyard. Here are my top 20 records for 2020. Register your complaints in the comments […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on November 12, 2020
While most of 2020 has been spent living in the COVID-19 pandemic, some highlights still included new music that helped us get through this bizarre year. It’s hard to believe the year is winding down but, the year-end lists are starting to come through. Decibel Magazine has revealed their top 40 albums of […]
Posted by Matt Brown on April 1, 2020
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. I’ve been writing the Metal By Numbers column for about 7 1/2 years now, and I think it’s about time for change. Something’s been missing from this column and for years I haven’t […]
Posted by Matt Brown on March 25, 2020
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. It’s no secret that a lot of bands are hurting right now. Granted, lots of people everywhere are hurting right now, financially, emotionally, and physically. But as this is a column about record […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on March 22, 2020
Dark Fortress were forced to cancel their release shows due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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“Yesterday our show in Rotterdam officially got canceled due to the prevailing situation regarding to the spread of Covid-19, today the show in Munich… It is just a matter of time until every show will be down, so under the current circumstances of event size restrictions and a growing number of travel bans which affect some members of the band already, it simply doesn’t make any sense trying to tour at the moment, therefore we have no other choice than canceling the whole tour.
Of course we are disappointed and we cannot wait to finally get back on stage, especially after the amazing feedback our new album has received so far, but this is a force majeure…
We can only hope that the situation will calm down in the upcoming weeks and months and that we will be able to tour in October as planned.”
-V. Santura / Dark Fortress”
However, the group will be performing at next year’s Inferno festival, which is currently getting scheduled due to this year’s event being cancelled.
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on February 14, 2020
Germany’s Dark Fortress are gearing up for their new album Spectres from the Old World, which will be released on February 28th via Century Media Records. The follow-up to 2014’s Venereal Dawn promises to be more aggressive than their prior efforts. Their overall eighth full-length effort was recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered by V. […]
Posted by Matt Brown on September 11, 2014
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. This week’s sales were taken over by a combination of bands with colorful names and Swedes. Of course, last week featured a pretty big Swedish act as well, but this week there’s not one, […]
